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Isodicentric X chromosome in a woman with characteristics of gonadal dysgenesis

✍ Scribed by Živana Laća; Marklena Ivanović; Vesna Dramušić; Slavka Morić-Petrović


Publisher
Springer
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
331 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-6717

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✦ Synopsis


This paper presents a female patient with primary amenorrhea in whose karyotype an aberrant X chromosome was present. The chromosome resulted from the fusion of two X chromosomes at distal parts of the long arm and from the loss of the segment q24 leads to qter. The clinical and cytogenetic picture is compared with that of patients with the same aberration reported by other authors.


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